Ford Mondeo sedan has received a technological upgrade aimed at the safety improving of the car and improving of the intelligent driver assistance systems. People can order updated Ford Mondeo at all official Ford dealers in Russia.

In Autumn AVTOVAZ will start production and sales of the Lada Kalina Cross and the Lada Largus Cross pseudocrossover versions as well as the Lada 4x4 Urban. According to the experts, due to the market situation the company will be able to sell not more than 20,000 such vehicles.

As AVTOVAZ representative told to Vedomosti newspaper, the enterprise was planning to produce several tens of thousands of the Lada Lagrus and the Lada Kalina pseudocrossovers per year. The vehicles will get chassis and style alterations - higher road clearance and crossover-like exterior.

Production of pseudocrossover versions will enable to use the demand in SUV segment in the Russian market and to minimize fallout from reducing sales in B- and C-classes.

The demand for SUVs and crossovers does not decrease: according to AUTOSTAT agency, from January to March SUV sales in Russia grew by 4.4% to 216,740 vehicles while the demand for B-class cars reduced by 10.2% to 174,280 vehicles and the sales decline in C-segment was 1.2% to 104,090 vehicles.

Today AVTOVAZ is represented in SUV and crossover segment with only one model - the Lada 4x4. In the future new crossovers will be introduced.